What the records say
- When
- 1979
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Egypt
- Coordinates
- 26.19° N, 29.45° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 2000
- Area km2
- 20000
- Losing
- Israel
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Egypt
Country in North Africa
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan and the Sahara to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation